Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Velazquez

Claimant filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits, asserting that he had a compensable occupational disease in his hands, arms, and shoulders caused by his work as a computer network engineer. Employer denied the claim, asserting, among other things, that claimant’s work was not the major contributing cause of the claimed disease. The Workers’ Compensation Board set aside the denial after finding that claimant had been diagnosed with “chronic muscular tension pain” that was caused by long hours of computer work. Employer seeks judicial review. It argues that the board failed to…